Sessions
Business Intelligence - May 22
BI – 101 Basics of Data Warehousing 8:30-9:15
This session defines the types of data warehouses and how they should be used. What different structures can exist in a data warehouse, and how do they affect optimization? What are the underlying technologies? Which options are available from major vendors?
Speaker: Kris Valavala, ComTec
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management , Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 201 Data Integration w/ Business Intelligence for Mid-Market and Enterprise 12:30-1:15
Understand some of the challenges facing business users and management today when it comes down to getting trusted, reliable and timely information. In addition, learn to improve performance by combining your data integrator with a new BI system that can fit an organization’s business and budgeting requirements while providing scalability that allows for continued function through growth. A demonstration of the combined toolset will be provided at the session.
Speaker: Jim Smith, Business Objects
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 202 Analytic Dashboards: Helping Business User Visualize Information Quickly 9:30-10:15
Business users don't want tools – they want to find the right information, analyze it on their own terms, and intuitively discover what they need to know about their business.
Speaker: John Knabe, Information Builders
Who Should Attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 203 Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Overview and Data Integration Dive 2:30-3:15
Learn how Enterprise Information Management (EIM) can provide your organization with access to trustworthy, integrated and timely information. Then take a deep dive into Data Integration capabilities to understand how it can help improve performance in both a Mid-Market and Enterprise organization. A demonstration of Data Integrator will be provided at the session.
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Challenges |
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Review of the Products Provided |
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Speaker: Jim Smith, Business Objects
Who Should Attend: IT Executives, Management, DW Designers, DB Administrators, Technical Architects
BI - 204 Avoiding BI Worst Practices 1:30-2:15
Discussion on the top mistakes BI implementers make and how to avoid them. Topics include providing powerful visualization and analytics to end users – without forcing them to learn power tools, ensuring the widest adoption and greatest benefits from BI – without descending into Excel chaos, maximizing the value of data warehousing – while minimizing its risks and finding the right balance of end-user capability and IT support.
Speaker: John Knabe, Information Builders
Who Should Attend: IT Executives, Management, DW Designers, DB Administrators, Technical Architects
BI – 205 Business Scorecards: Getting Most out of your IT Investments 8:30-9:15
Business scorecards provide a mechanism to quickly communicate how a business unit is performing against published business objectives. This session will focus on developing business scorecards, how scorecards differ from other analytical applications, and techniques used to successfully implement scorecards throughout the entire organization.
Speaker: Maulik Modi, Oracle
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 206 Operational Vs Warehouse Reporting 3:30-4:15
Data usage patterns associated with operational systems are significantly different than usage patterns associated with data warehousing systems. This session talks about the difference between operational systems and data warehousing systems and how Analytics reporting is different from Operational reporting.
Speaker: Mahesh Chimmana, SAIC
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 207 Moving from “What” to “Why” & “What If” 9:30-10:15
As organizations mature in their use of reporting tools, the natural transition is to move from operational (“What” is happening) to analytical/strategic (“Why” is it happening, “What If” we did the following) reporting. In the talk, we will cover some of the key technologies (and architecture changes) that accompany this type of reporting maturation – such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Data Mining.
Speaker: Tyler Chessman, Microsoft
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 208 Meeting your Web-Based, Flexible End User Reporting Requirements 1:30-2:15
By designing reporting systems with end-user flexibility in mind you can decrease the effort needed by IT while increasing the end-user satisfaction. This demonstration will show several deployment choices that offer the ultimate in end-user flexibility. These deployment options, based on the open-source BIRT technology, allow end-users to customize their individual reports allowing them to answer many ad hoc business questions without IT having to create a new report. End-users can add sorting, grouping, filtering, choose columns, insert aggregations and calculations, or create an entire report from scratch... all from an AJAX based drag-drop web interface. This interactive report viewing experience shifts report customization to the end-users where they can then be saved to be refreshed later or to be shared with others within the organization. Designing for end-user flexibility means you can reduce your report development cycles, decrease your number of report designs, and provide an environment that lets you get up and running quicker with a more polished experience for your end-users.
Speaker: Virgil Dodson, Actuate
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 209 First Steps to Flawless Business Intelligence 12:30-1:15
This session talks about the common mistakes that are made in implementing BI solutions and how to prevent them. Do’s and Don’ts of mid to large scale implementations across horizontal industries. It also provides practical insight into the some of the key issues in BI implementations.
Speaker: Kris Valavala, ComTec
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
BI – 210 Mobile Threats: The new frontier in security and ISO-27001: Why it is broken and how to fix it 2:30-3:15
The world is going mobile and enterprise network perimeters are getting extended. Every time an enterprise deploys a mobile application, the network perimeter gets extended to that application. Using several real world mobile case studies, Mahi will enumerate various threats to mobile applications. Unique characteristics of a mobile environment that make it a security challenge are discussed.
Why traditional PC based security solutions do not work in a mobile environment is detailed. Special defensive techniques such as Optimized counter measures will be presented. In addition, OWASP (open web application security project) guiding principles will be listed throughout the presentations
Case Study: Best practice perimeter security breached
Case Study: Exploiting vulnerabilities via SMS
ISO-27001 is falling short of what it was supposed to achieve, firms are getting frustrated with lack of improvement in their security posture in spite of investing a lot of resources in certification. Mahi will provide an overview of ISO-270001, its implementation challenges and gaps in the specification.
Issues such as focus on technical controls, audit driven, discrete feedback loop and lack of implementation guidance are discussed. The breakdown of the traditional CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) triad for information security is detailed.
A new process based approach (ISM3) that provides continuous improvement based on metrics is described, along with how it can greatly assist in a successful ISO-27001 implementation.
Finally Mahi will describe how to go beyond a successful ISO-27001 implementation and move from a managed Information security management system (ISMS) to optimized ISMS.
Speaker: Mahi Dontamsetti, M3 Security
Who should attend: IT Executives, Management, Business Users, and Analysts
IT Security - May 23 (Updated session info available at the Registration counter
ITS – 201 Traffic Management and Load Balancing 8:00-8:45
This session covers how to inspect, secure, shape, transform and load-balance application traffic across your infrastructure.
Speaker: Stephen Davis, Zeus
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 202 Big Bad Wolf - Real Network Attacks Blown Away 8:00-8:45
This educational session will review real case studies of actual network attacks and how they were combated. Learn how to proactively protect your network from common threats including malicious content, undesired access, and rate-based attacks using the latest IPS technology from Top Layer's Director of NA Sales Engineering, Stephen Gates. This session is ideal for anyone responsible for network security and protecting critical assets. Have the opportunity to ask questions and speak with an industry expert.
Speaker: Stephen Gates, Top Layer Networks
Who should attend: Network Managers, Network Engineers, IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 203 Securely managing Data at Rest and Data in Motion 3:15-4:00 CANCELLED
This session talks about the differences in data at rest and data in motion, and how the security can be built around different types of data.
Speaker: Pat Shuff, Oracle
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, DBAs, Database architects, Developers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 204 Internet Filtering and Web Security 1:15-2:00
The Internet is both a powerful resource and a potential threat. With spyware, malicious SSL tunneling and increased legal exposure arising from misuse, how can you best manage every packet coming in and out of your network? We'll discuss several strategies to help you monitor, manage, control and secure all the traffic coming down your Internet pipe.
Speaker: David Lewis, ContentKeeper
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS - 205 Intrusion Prevention and Network Access Control 10:45-11:30
Traditionally, enterprises have had to balance a user's need to access network resources with the need to protect the network from security threats. If security increases, by default access would be limited and productivity would be impacted. But if the network were left open, users could gain access but created a vulnerable opening for threats to enter the network and wreak havoc which would severely impact productivity and network operations. This session details on how to strike a balance between the needs and security and the tools that are available.
Speaker: Ray Wizbowski, ForeScout Technologies
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 206 7 Habits for Highly Effective Implementation of Strong Authentication 10:45-11:30
Increasingly, organizations are adopting strong authentication solutions to meet their security requirements. How successful are these implementations and what actions lead to the best results? This session discusses some real-world examples and details the important considerations when implementing authentication tokens in your organization, from evaluation to execution.
Speaker: Aladdin
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 207 Identity Management with Smart Card Technology 12:15-1:00
Based on a close partnership and years of development, support for Gemalto's smart card technology is now built into Microsoft's ID&A infrastructure. In this presentation, Marvin Tansley, Director of Global Alliances, will explain how Gemalto's strong authentications solutions work with Microsoft products for easy deployment of one-time password and PKI applications.
Speaker: Marvin Tansley, Gemalto
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS - 208 The Coming Merge of Strong Authentication & Digital Everything 2:15-3:00
The computer industry is poised to dramatically change how we securely conduct all aspects of our digital lives. In an increasingly connected life, highly secure personal digital interactions are essential. Business communications and transactions, personal SMS messaging, TV shows on your phone, and secure internet banking are all driving the need user friendly authentication. Combined with IP protection requirements, legislative initiatives, and an increasingly hostile Internet, new approaches to authentication are being implemented by leading corporations such as Boeing and Microsoft. This presentation will focus on some of the major business oriented authentication trends, and some suggestions on how to approach evaluation of this essential technology.
Speaker: Ross W. Duncan
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 209 Security dangers in web application development – SQL Injection, Ajax, XSS 1:15-2:00
With the integration of new technologies into web application development, there are more security dangers than ever before to be found in the application layer. This session discusses the landscape of web application security, new technologies being used in developing web applications and web services and the implications these have on system security. Technical vulnerabilities in web applications such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) will be discussed alongside logical, business-level issues. The evolution of these flaws will be tracked as traditional web applications have expanded to include Web 2.0 and AJAX capabilities. The goal of the presentation is to educate developers, project managers and quality assurance personnel about the risks inherent in developing web applications and provide meaningful recommendations for addressing those risks during the software development lifecycle. Examples will be provided for both ASP.NET and Java EE environments and particular security characteristics of both platforms will be explored.
Speaker: Dan Carnell (Denim Group), Jay Shyam (ComTec)
Who should attend: Technology Professionals, Technical Architects, IT Executives, Project Managers, Quality Assurance Personnel, IT Security Officers, Risk Managers
ITS - 210 Securing the Enterprise using Thin Client Technology 2:15-3:00 - CANCELLED
Thin, Thinner, Thinnest. What are the different types of thin client architectures? How can they help you secure your enterprise? This session will focus on using thin client hardware and software solutions to securely execute Windows applications in a distributed environment. It will also illustrate how it is easier to maintain your security perimeter with a thin client approach.
Speaker: Mont Echols, LA Technology Group
Who should attend: IT Executives, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS – 211 The E-mail Threat Landscape Has Changed: Moving Beyond Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus 3:15-4:00
Today, email filtering is more than just anti-spam and anti-virus. Complex threats, combined with the fact that many spammers are also hackers, means organizations need to take a preemptive, multi-layered approach to email security to keep business-critical email flowing. This session will examine in-depth the latest preemptive techniques for staying ahead of email threats, such as profiling malicious behavior to identify, analyze and block suspicious behaviors in file attachments and executable code before they can infiltrate the network. The discussion will focus on how companies can leverage these techniques to proactively address entire classes of threats, rather than on a case by case basis, which is where the future of email security lies.
Speaker: Matt Pour, IBM ISS
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
ITS -212 Are we more secure today than we were last year? 12:15-1:00 CANCELLED
Measuring security performance has been a tricky prospect in the past. The real questions businesses face regarding security is whether they are more secure than they were the year before and how can they quantify that in terms of reduced risk and compliance, and overall value to an organization. In this informative seminar, David Puzas will show how managed security services can provide the flexibility, visibility and quantifiable protection to answer the question that every CIO wants to know.
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A quantifiable framework for maximizing your security investments |
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A detailed view of IBM next generation protection on-demand architecture |
Speaker: David Puzas, IBM ISS
Who should attend: IT Executives, IT Security Officers, Auditors, Technical Architects, Risk Managers
Target Audience
CIOs, CTOs, and their direct reports; IT Architects and Planners; Application Integration Management; Application Development Management; IT Operations Management; IT Security Management; IT Network and Telecom Management; Content, Portals, Business Intelligence Professionals; and anyone involved in enterprise-level IT decisions.
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